Discovery of novel antimicrobial agents targeting the bacterial RNA polymerase by high-throughput virtual screening

Chem-Bio Informatics Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-56

  Onodera, Kenji ^a   Kawasaki, Takayasu ^a   Kamijo, Shunsuke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Docking; Score optimization; Scoring function; Virtual screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960223230     PISSN: 13476297     EISSN: 13470442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1273/cbij.11.52     Document Type: Article

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